OK....I'll go with your line of reasoning.
Therefore, the Jewish population of Skokie are neo-nazi sympathizers.
Regards
J.R.
No, you're not. I didn't say the overwhelming (and silent) majority of registered users on LF were neonazi sympathizers. Most probably they're not, and refuse to have anything to do with the output of the place after having registered there - in fact, as I said, I imagine most of them are not even there anymore.
But you're really sort of comparing apples and oranges. A community (Skokie) is bound by certain rules, so that any Nazi scum that wants to march actually has a right to. A board such as LF is privately owned and doesn't come under any free-speech rules but the owner's. So if the general tone of the place is Nazist, it is really with the approval of the owner. It's like a newspaper - if most of what is printed in there is nazi rants, it's a nazi newspaper and that becomes the editorial line. It also becomes the editorial responsibility (something no publisher can escape by saying he "doesn't want to censor"). And no board owner can run away from the fact that he actually is the publisher of what is on his board, be it calls to exterminate the Jews or a discussion of bunnyrabbits.
More, if the place is used for stuff like planning attacks on Jews, for example, and anything is carried out, the owner is effectively finished legally. And if Graybeard's offer to map Jewish homes for al Quaida hits should come to fruition, I'd imagine that everyone who ever posted on LF would face an interesting time with a lot of pc's being carted away for forensics.